[ Dec.2015 ] This photo is the house of Neruda in Valparaiso in Chile.
Now it is a museum.
Unfortunately we did not have time to look inside, but this is one of the tourist attractions in this town.
Neruda was a genius who started writing poems at the age of 10.
He was also a diplomat.
When he was working in Spain, he saw the civil war there and his ideals became more and more socialist and communist.
When the communist party became illegal, he exiled himself to Italy.
A film about this period of his life was made in the 1990s.
He received Nobel Prize in 1971, but two years later in 1973, they say that he was killed by the military of Pinochet who seized the power by coup d’etat in the same year.
Our tour leader told us that he was in a hospital because of the heart problem and there he was injected something suspicious.
He went back home, but after a few hours, he got in critical condition and the ambulance tried to take him to the hospital, but the military officers stopped the ambulance and he was taken out of the car.
There was a statue of him not far from the museum.
